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Ten Beautiful Things I Use Every Day…

20 Sunday Feb 2011

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© Studio La Donna

Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright

In addition to my umbrella (it is raining heavily today), below is a list of my favorite things:

1.   iPhone (a friendship that has turned to love)
2.   Eiderdown comforter (800 fill count)
3.   Chronicle Books Journal by Julia Rothman
4.   2001 BMW X5 (nothing beats driving it on mountain roads)
5.   Swiss Army knife (Boy Scout Explorer model)
6.   Coach black high heel shoes
7.   Elna sewing machine (I have replaced the motor twice and will not part with it)
8.   Vintage Beaver Canoe sweatshirt (very cozy)
9.   KitchenAid countertop commercial mixer
10. Lululemon yoga pants (very slimming)

Model – Lauren DiMarco

Polka Dot Dress…

18 Friday Feb 2011

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© Joan Currie

Clothing should not mask a person, but enhance one.
Richard Bengtsson & Edward Pavlick

What do you do when you find the perfect dress and your mother (or sister or friend) tells you it is nice but impractical and so you pass on it, but spend the rest of the season regretting your decision?

Trainman…

14 Monday Feb 2011

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© Joan Currie

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man.  –  Thomas Jefferson

I had the pleasure of meeting this trainman today after riding the historic Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad steam train through the redwood forest.

© Joan Currie

Great Love…

11 Friday Feb 2011

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© Ryuuzaki Julio

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined…to strengthen each other…
to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.  – George Eliot

If I had known that he was going to be my only great love, I would never have let him go.

Model – Micha Borodaev

Beautiful Eyes…

10 Thursday Feb 2011

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© Moja Ma’at

The stars try to imitate the glitter in your eyes
But fail helplessly and cry for your sight
To pacify my heart which pounds and weep
To see you till its last beat.
from The Glitter in Your Eyes – C. N. Premkumar

This Valentine’s Day take a moment to behold your lover’s beautiful eyes.

Model – Erin Leeper
Photographer – Moja Ma’at

Kindred Spirits…

07 Monday Feb 2011

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© Antonio Genovia - detail

I think you may be a kindred spirit after all.  – Anne of Green Gables

I am a huge Lucy Maud Montgomery fan! Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe of the Anne of Green Gables series were my favorite fictional characters as a child, as they were for most Canadian girls. (And, thanks to director and producer Kevin Sullivan, they are for my daughters’ generation, as well. )

It was Anne Shirley who filled my head with the notion of how wonderful it would be for your kindred spirit and your love interest to be one and the same.

Models – Lauren DiMarco & Oleg Galagan

Stained Glass Window…

05 Saturday Feb 2011

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© Joan Currie

Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well. I got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray…
California Dreamin’ – The Mamas and the Papas

I stopped into a chapel and photographed this charming stained glass window located directly behind the altar (detail shown above).